Central Park NYC Monday September 9, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Thirteen species of Wood Warblers, including Prairie and Cape May warblers, migrating Ospreys, and an uptick in the numbers of Common Yellowthroats and Veerys. Canada Goose - flyover flock of 12 Mallard - 14 Mourning Dove - 3 or 4 in the Ramble Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Wagner Cove Chimney Swift - flock of 32 near American Kestrel over Balcony Bridge Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 (2 at Oven, 1 Strawberry Fields) Spotted Sandpiper - Lake Herring Gull - 4 flyovers Osprey - 5 migrants Belted Kingfisher - Upper Lobe Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Tupelo Field Northern Flicker - 3 Tupelo Field American Kestrel - over Balcony Bridge (see Chimney Swift) Great Crested Flycatcher - 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 7 Least Flycatcher - Maintenance Field Warbling Vireo - 1 Humming Tombstone Red-eyed Vireo - 12 Blue Jay - 7 House Wren - 1 Tupelo Field Carolina Wren - 4 (3 of these in Shakespeare Garden) Veery - 10 Wood Thrush - 1 in Ramble American Robin - many feeding in Hackberries Gray Catbird - 6 Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 14 Baltimore Oriole - 2 Balcony Bridge Common Grackle - 4 Ovenbird - 3 (2 at Oven, 1 in Ramble) Northern Waterthrush - 1 along east side of Lake, 1 Belvedere Castle) Black-and-white Warbler - around a dozen Common Yellowthroat - around 14 American Redstart - 30 Cape May Warbler - 1 English Oak west of Castle Northern Parula - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 6 Yellow Warbler - 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 Prairie Warbler - 1 at the Oven Canada Warbler - 1 Warbler Rock Scarlet Tanager - 2 males (Shakespeare Garden (Bob & Lotus W. Lee 6:45am, Turtle Pond (John of Queens, a Red Sox fan) Northern Cardinal - family with adults feeding 2 young juveniles in Ramble Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 5 -- Lotus Winnie Lee @lotuswinnielee tweeted a Hairy Woodpecker photographed in Central Park on Sunday, September 8. -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
